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Page 193
A different centrifugal influence on each planet of our system might have given to each an elongated instead of a nearly circular orbit , and the benefits of such an orbit cannot therefore be referred to collocation alone .
A different centrifugal influence on each planet of our system might have given to each an elongated instead of a nearly circular orbit , and the benefits of such an orbit cannot therefore be referred to collocation alone .
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... as that in most instances , there should have been an axis with an angle of inclination to the plane of the orbit — that should have so tempered the velocity of the centrifugal motion as to have given to each a nearly circular path ...
... as that in most instances , there should have been an axis with an angle of inclination to the plane of the orbit — that should have so tempered the velocity of the centrifugal motion as to have given to each a nearly circular path ...
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Yet , in spite of all the topical moralities to which these have given birth , there is an unquestioned and universal morality notwithstanding . And in every case , where the moral sense is unfettered by these associations ; and the ...
Yet , in spite of all the topical moralities to which these have given birth , there is an unquestioned and universal morality notwithstanding . And in every case , where the moral sense is unfettered by these associations ; and the ...
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Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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